With six films that have together generated $1 billion dollars at the box office, the Resident Evil film franchise is considered for better or worst, the most successful video game film franchise made. Despite the film’s last movie being “The Final Chapter”, the series is about to rise from the grave with a new reboot.
According to Variety, the new Resident Evil movie is a “high priority” for the producers at Constantin Films, who was behind the previous entries in the series, and the reboot director has been chosen. Johannes Roberts, director of 47 Meters Down and The Strangers: Prey at Night, has been announced to write and direct the reboot.
Details of the cast and the plot of the film (and whether or not they’ll actually follow the plot of the games) is currently under wraps. The original series was loosely based on the popular horror series from Capcom and featured Milla Jovovich fighting the Umbrella Corp. and Zombies.
Milla Jovovich and her husband Paul W.S. Anderson may have stepped away from the Resident Evil series, but not from making adaptations of other popular Capcom franchises, as the two are currently filming a movie based on the Monster Hunter franchise staring Jovovich, Tony Jaa and Ron Perlman.